| By Cangse Sanren | Part of the Phoenix Rising continuity. |
Serafina Hira'a was a Fire Nation noblewoman from Crescent Island and the only daughter of Avatar Roku and Melody. The wife of Aidan Hira'a, she was the mother of Ozai, and the maternal grandmother of Zuko, Azula, Maya, and Melody ll. Serafina and her husband worked in her family greenhouse and passed her knowledge of plants and medicine down to her only son.
Two years after Ozai was forced to marry Ursa, Serafina was murdered by Bellatrix, Ursa's most trusted guard and closest friend, using an untraceable poison made from nightshade and belladonna extract. Her death was learned by Ozai the night he and his children fled the Fire Nation, and it left him heartbroken. She was later followed in death by her husband a year later, who passed away from illness and a broken heart. Her memory was what drove Ozai to fulfill his duty as the Avatar and defeat Ursa while avenging her death.
History[]
Sera and her father, Roku Hira'a
Serafina was born to Roku and Melody on Crescent Island as the daughter of the Avatar and great-granddaughter of Avatar Kuruk. She was a kind and fairly diligent girl who actually wanted more outside of her life of luxury. When she was in her twenties, Sera met a man named Aidan, who became a governor of Hira'a. They subsequently settled down in the village in her family's greenhouse and had one son together, Ozai. As a master herbalist, Serafina taught her son much about medicinal herbs and poisons, knowing that this knowledge could potentially save him and someone else's life.
When Ozai was twenty-one years old, Fire Lord Azulon approached the couple with Princess Ursa in tow. The Fire Sages had prophesied that a powerful bloodline would result from the marriage between his daughter and a descendant of Avatar Roku, namely Ozai, and Azulon wished to bring this prediction to fulfillment. To ensure her son's protection, she did not reveal that he was the Avatar. While Aidan was entertaining his guests in the family's greenhouse, Sera was inside the main house, crying over the Crown Prince headpiece that she had inherited from her deceased father. When Ozai came home with the news of a job offer at a local orphanage, Serafina told him to go to his father and his guests in the greenhouse, but emphasized to her son that she loved him.
Serafina and her husband later died three years after their son married Ursa, and having received no form of communication from him, never heard from their son again or got to meet their grandchildren.
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